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Introduction to natural selection

Title
Introduction to natural selection / Clifford Johnson.
Author
Johnson, Clifford, 1932-
Publication
Baltimore : University Park Press, ©1976.

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Description
viii, 213 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 197-207.
Contents
Introduction -- Genetic systems and fitness : Neutral equilibria ; Nonrandom mating systems ; Selection coefficients and fitness ; Estimating s and w ; Life tables and fitness ; Mean life expectancy and fitness ; Reproductive values ; Heterozygosity and selection ; Other pathways to ∆q ; Terminology -- Evidence for selection : Cryptic, mimetic, and warning patterns ; Sexual selection ; Clines and area effects ; Studies from natural populations : Two or more autosomal loci ; Sex-linked loci ; Mother-child combinations ; Within-generation multiple samples ; Between-generation multiple samples. Studies in the laboratory ; Restructuring genotypes ; Proteins and selection -- The balanced polymorphism, or the non-neutral equilibria -- Selection coefficients in natural populations -- Varying fitness and the unit of selection -- Quantitative traits and the selection effect -- Selection in retrospect and prospect.
ISBN
  • 0839109369
  • 9780839109365
LCCN
76008175
OCLC
  • ocm02091640
  • 2091640
  • SCSB-9618584
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library